Cooper Morality, Black History Month Test
Hamer Quote
"Christ was a revolutionary, that's what God is all about, + that is where I get my strength."
Douglass Quote
"Christianity is a leaving principle + None of the aristocracy can go to heaven."
Fr. Augustus Tolton Quote
"Mother Katherine stands alone as the first one to make such a sacrifice for the cause of a downtrodden race."
Moses
- Liberator + mystic - His story is the African-American story - God's desire to bring people out of bondage + into new life
Langston Hughes Quote
"All the way from Africa to Georgia I carried my sorrow songs. I made Ragtime."
Anderson Quote
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you may not soar as you otherwise might."
Sojourner Quote
"Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God?... learn to love + be all the children of God."
Dr. King Quote
"For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing Institutions of society, a little change here, a little change there, now I feel quite differently. I think you have got to have a reconstruction of the entire society. A revolution of values."
Griffin Quote
"I went to live on the other side of the river. We can no longer justify demonizing man for such false reasons."
Bethune Quote
"If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword + the shield of pride."
Sojourner Quote
"Is God dead?" to Douglass
Chisholm Quote
"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."
Mandela Quote
"Teachers are the most powerful weapon to change the world"
Douglass Quote
"The silver trumpet of freedom had raised my soul to eternal wakefulness."
Bethune Quote
"The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood."
Malcolm X Quote
"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding. Understanding creates love. Love creates patience. And patience creates unity."
Anderson Quote
"This Little light of mine, I'm going to make it shine..."
Mandela Quote
"We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let out light shine, we unconsciously give each other people permission to do the same."
Sojourner Quote
"Where did Christ come from? God + woman. Man had nothing to do with him."
Sojourner
- 1797-1883 - Abolitionist + preacher - slave sold + beaten many times - all 9 siblings sold and even her own kids sold - raised as a Christian. God told her "You will be free." - escapes and took new name Sojourner = travel, itinerant preacher - also fought for women rights, suffragist - worked w/ Douglass, met Harriet Beecher Stowe, and met Lincoln - she recited a famous speech, "Ain't I A Woman"
St. Katherine Drexel
- 1858-1955 - born rich, #2 family in USA behind JP Morgan, raised in Philly (A) rich dad built chapel in mansion (B) mom runs a soup kitchen from her own mansion - When in Rome on vacation, family meets Pope. She asked him "Can you help USA, we do not do a good job w/ Blacks/Natives Americans" - Pope says "I got no one to send, how about you?" She says "yes" - She becomes a nun and starts order of nuns, Blessed Sacrament Nuns - Nun's purpose = educate Blacks/Native Americans - she builds 200 schools and the FIRST black university, Xavier U (only college started by a saint)
Nelson Mandela
- Freedom fighter - Apartheid - From chief to prisoner to President - Nobel Peace Prize 1993 w/ white president, De Klerk (passed power non-violently) - spent 27 years in small cell and came out forgiving
Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1900s, Daughters of the American Revolution wouldn't allow Marian Anderson (African American) to sing in Constitutional Hall. - she resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution because of this - then arranged for her to sing in a mall a much bigger crowd
Joe Searles
- 1970 - 1st Black on Wall St.
St. Perpetua and St. Felicity
- 200s early African martyrs at Rome - St. Augustine said their story was more well known than the Gospels - at her trial, St. Perpetua said "I am only guilty of being a Christian" - Perpetua- noblewoman - Felicity- slave - they were stripped, attacked and gorged by animals, beheaded after
John Howard Griffin
- Author of Black Like Me - He was a WWII hero + helped Jews to safety - Blinded for years but sees again - challenged by his African American friends to "walk in their shoes" - He made a trip in segregated south as a white man + documented his experience in hotels, restaurants, etc. - He goes home and becomes a "negro" by using radiation, dyes, drugs and shaving his head. - Documented how people treated differently and daily threat of violence - Died young due to radiation
Malcolm X
- Conversion story - drugs, crime - Detroit prison - Muslim - Mecca - conversion again - dies in Harlem, part of upper Manhattan, NYC
Ida B. Wells
- Former slave - Civil War baby - Mississippi - Died in 1932 - Journalist - Voice of the people - She fought the world of Jim Crow - #1 voice vs. lynching - Also fought for women's rights - Lecturer - Thrown off a white's only train in the 1800s for protesting - Autobiography = crusade for justice
Wangari Maathai
- Nobel Peace Prize 2004 - "The Green Militant" - She fought to save Africa's land. 10,000 women planted trees to stop deforestation - Dictator, Moi, Kenya went after her - Military + police try and stop women and women were strip naked to shame the men - she was beaten by police + signed her name at police station in her own blood - gets scholarship to Catholic College in USA Mt St. Scholastica, Kanas - convert to Catholicism - Gets PhD #1 woman in East/Central Africa
Fannie Lou Hamer
- Prophet of Freedom - 1917-1977 - 1 of 20 kids. Her dad was a poor sharecropper. - She became a Civil Rights Activist in Mississippi - jailed and brutally beaten - later she became a voice against the Vietnam War
Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of freedom - born a slave - He traded meals to get education. - Abolitionist - also fought for women's rights even before slaves were freed - one of few men at the first women's convention in Seneca Falls
Martyrs of Birmingham
- civil rights 1963 - evil ones (KKK) threw dynamite in to a church in Alabama - 3 young teenagers and 1 eleven year old die + 20 injured - girls just finished Sunday school and were changing into choir robes - Birmingham, Alabama was called the Johannesburg of the south - symbolism- children of light vs. children of darkness - the girls died after Sunday school lesson on the gospel message of love - an eternal epitaph
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A giant who ran the First Women's Convention
Xavier in New Orleans
First Black University
"War" song
Song by Edwin Starr
"Peace" song
Song by Langston Hughes
What does the "X" mean in Malcolm X?
Stands for his unknown African name
Susan B. Anthony & Lucretia Mott
Two major Suffragist Leaders
Sharecropping
Working the plantation for a share of the crop
Claude Brown
Wrote the classic 'Man Child in the Promised Land'.
Suffragist
someone who fights for women's rights